Color

#ad949e

#ad949e
hex#ad949e
rgbrgb(173, 148, 158)
hslhsl(336, 13%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.033 351.9)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3253

Colors that go with #ad949e

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Burlywood lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #ad949e

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94ada3

#ad94aa · #ad9794

#9ead94 · #949ead

Split-complementary

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#94ad97 · #94aaad

#aaad94 · #94ada3 · #9794ad

Contrast

#ad949e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d6d7a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6b525c as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.51:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad949e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#ad949e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad949e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ad949e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad949e-c49ca7-62cb6e-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md